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Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes award-winning American actress. Woodward, who is married to Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer.

Early life

Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor Gignilliat (née Trimmier) and Wade Woodward, Jr., who at one point was vice president of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. Her middle name, "Gignilliat", originates from distant Huguenot ancestry. She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name - "Joanne". Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Woodward rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's husband. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1979, in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba.

Woodward lived in Thomasville until she was in the second grade. Her family relocated to Marietta, Georgia. They moved once again when she was a junior in high school, after her parents divorced. She graduated from Greenville High School in 1947, in Greenville, South Carolina. Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She majored in drama at Louisiana State University, where she was an initiate of Chi Omega sorority, then headed to New York City to perform on the stage.

Career

Early career

Woodward's first film was a post-Civil War western Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually, understudying in the New York production of Picnic which featured Paul Newman. The two were married in 1958 after their work together in the film The Long, Hot Summer. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Films with Paul Newman

She appeared with her husband, Paul Newman in ten featured films:

They both also appeared in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls but did not have any scenes together.

She starred in four films that Newman directed or produced but did not star in:

Later career

Woodward has continued to act on stage, films, and television in such films as Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and Philadelphia (1993) in which she played the mother to Tom Hanks' character. She also appeared in the television films Sybil opposite Sally Field and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorsese's screen version of The Age of Innocence.

She has produced, co-produced and directed a number of TV programs. Woodward is the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse.

Personal life

Woodward married Paul Newman on January 29, 1958. They have three daughters: Elinor Teresa (1959; known professionally as Nell Potts), Melissa Stewart (1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (1965). She and Newman live in Westport, Connecticut, but are extremely private about their personal lives. Newman will occasionally venture to California, but Woodward has refused to go west for many years.

In 1990, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College alongside her daughter, Clea.

Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes
1955 Count Three and Pray Lissy
1956 A Kiss Before Dying Dorothy ('Dorie') Kingship
1957 The Three Faces of Eve Eve White / Eve Black / Jane Academy Award for Best Actress;
Golden Globe; Nominated - BAFTA Award
No Down Payment Leola Boone Nominated - BAFTA Award
1958 The Long, Hot Summer Clara Varner
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! Grace Oglethorpe Bannerman
1959 The Sound and the Fury Quentin Compson/Narrator
The Fugitive Kind Carol Cutrere
1960 From the Terrace Mary St. John/Mrs. Alfred Eaton
1961 Paris Blues Lillian Corning
1963 The Stripper Lila Green
A New Kind of Love Samantha (Sam) Blake/Mimi Nominated - Golden Globe
1964 Signpost to Murder Molly Thomas
1966 A Big Hand for the Little Lady Mary
A Fine Madness Rhoda Shillitoe
1968 Rachel, Rachel Rachel Cameron Academy Award for Best Actress; Golden Globe;
Nominated - BAFTA Award
1969 Winning Elora Capua
1970 WUSA Geraldine
1971 They Might Be Giants Dr. Mildred Watson
All the Way Home Mary Follet TV
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Beatrice Nominated - Golden Globe
1973 Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams Rita Walden Academy Award for Best Actress; Nominated - Golden Globe
1975 The Drowning Pool Iris Devereaux
1976 Sybil Dr. Cornelia Wilbur TV; Nominated - Emmy Award
1977 Come Back, Little Sheba Lola Delaney TV
1978 See How She Runs Betty Quinn TV; Emmy Award
The End Jessica Lawson
A Christmas to Remember Mildred McCloud TV
1979 The Streets of L.A. Carol Schramm TV
1980 The Shadow Box Beverly TV
1981 Crisis at Central High Elizabeth Huckaby TV; Nominated - Emmy Award; Nominated - Golden Globe
1982 Candida Candida TV
1984 Harry & Son Lilly
Passions Catherine Kennerly TV
1985 Do You Remember Love Barbara Wyatt-Hollis TV; Emmy Award; Nominated - Golden Globe
1987 The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield
1990 Mr. and Mrs. Bridge India Bridge Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress;
Nominated - Golden Globe
1993 Foreign Affairs Vinnie Miner TV
Blind Spot Nell Harrington TV; Nominated - Emmy Award
The Age of Innocence Narrator (voice)
Philadelphia Sarah Beckett
1994 Breathing Lessons Maggie Moran TV; Golden Globe; Nominated - Emmy Award
1996 Even If a Hundred Ogres... Narrator (voice)
2005 Empire Falls Francine Whiting TV; Nominated - Emmy Award; Nominated - Golden Globe

Awards

In 1958, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve. She was also nominated for Best Actress in 1969 for Rachel, Rachel, in 1974 for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, and in 1991 for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge. She was also named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for her performance in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

She won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for See How She Runs (1978) as a divorced teacher who trains for a marathon, and in Do You Remember Love? (1985) as a professor who begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. She has been nominated an additional five times for her roles on television.

On February 9, 1960, she became the first performer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.

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